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You guys went on Fox the other day with
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the Doge team. Big Balls. Big Balls was
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there. All of those guys were like 12
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years old. What is it about the role,
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the opportunity, the way it was
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presented that attracted this group of
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what were incredibly wellspoken, highly
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intelligent, clearly extraordinarily
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motivated individuals. Where do these
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guys come from? The young people you saw
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at the table are extraordinary. They're
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10x engineers. We would all be thrilled
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to have our companies. Elon obviously is
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extraordinary leaders. So they come for
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him, but I think they're really
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motivated by the mission. All of us have
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known Elon for a really long time. I
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also worked for another person that's of
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that same stature for a long time. A
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very good friend of his came to see me
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recently for lunch and he asked me this
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exact same question about Elon. That's
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the question that they were grappling
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with. How is he able to find big balls
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and so many big balls? I actually can
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tell you I've seen him find big balls.
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He responds to emails or tweets. people
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will say like, "I have a solution to
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this." And then I've been CCed on
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messages where he sends them to the
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right person. He has people to vet them
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and see if this idea actually works. And
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I think he's like very opportunistic and
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doesn't prejudge where you went to
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school and what your credentials are.
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There's a lot of people that can be
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responsive in email. I think there's a
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handful of people that are real northern
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stars for technical talent, but he's the
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only one that when you walk in the room,
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he says, "Here's this mission." And it
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is so generally otherworldly. Nobody
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else can really say that it is a
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flywheel as you said that is extremely
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unique.
